Casting An AI "Spellbook": The Powerful, Low-Cost, Continuous Improvement AI Strategy For Small, Fast-Moving Companies
Developing a proprietary AI large language model like OpenAI (ChatGPT), Google, Meta and other tech giants is a scale game where the stakes are counted in the billions. But that shouldn't stop smaller, more entrepreneurial companies from deploy...
Why The CFO-Yes, The CFO-Should Focus On Security
From political and social unrest that results in deadly combat to a climate crisis that delivers increasingly punishing weather events, the world is becoming less predictable.
Ever-changing scenarios are pure anathema to CFOs, as the...
Patent Law Isn't Ready for A.I. Here's How to Prepare Your Company
U.S. patent law isn't ready for artificial intelligence -- the technology is too revolutionary, too surprising, too powerful, and in some ways too opaque for our current legal framework to fully address. But in light of A.I.'s ascent, software co...
Wave of State Data Protection Laws Is a Gathering Compliance Nightmare
A patchwork of advancing data privacy bills across the nation is creating a figurative field of landmines waiting to explode. Indeed, consumer data privacy bills are flying through legislatures in red and blue states alike. The bills are as diver...
Alert fatigue pushes security analysts to the limit
Alert fatigue is a significant challenge for security officials in governments and organizations worldwide. Where the principal challenge in safeguarding operations and personnel used to be collecting sufficient actionable intelligence and data,...
How to Build a Company That Excels at Both Leading and Coaching - and Why It's Important
Companies, in an effort to be more efficient, are thinking twice about how many middle managers they need. And that makes it more important than ever to move from managing people to leading and coaching so they can do their jobs without the kind...
What If the Right Person for the Role Is a Bot? Accountability in the AI Age Takes Center Stage
Any company naturally aims to fill each role with the right person. But if AI and automation eventually replace more than a quarter of all current jobs, as one survey suggests, might the right "person" be a bot? And if that's the case, how...
Why Boards Are Missing The Mark On Succession
As the final season of the hit HBO show "Succession" drew to its recent close, the world of high-stakes corporate leadership changes became the obsession of millions. In reality, most succession stories involve boards larger than TV's Roy f...
Injecting Realism Into Your AI Threat Assessments
Cascading artificial intelligence advancements present an array of security traps for unsuspecting companies. The consequences of a successful attack are likely to be much more severe than an old-style phishing or hacking attack.
Gone...
Generative AI Has Changed the Calculus Around Corporate Risk Management
Generative artificial intelligence has been among the most impressive breakthroughs in years. But for corporate security chiefs, it's causing angst.
That's because for all its genius, generative AI - which can create human-leve...
The Threat of Generative AI Running Afoul of Data Protection Laws
The headlong rush into generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) comes with an undeniable threat of privacy intrusion that threatens to upend the public's embrace of this powerful productivity tool.
Failing to vigorously address priva...
A Growing Threat: Companies Are Caught In The Crosshairs Of Populism
To the list of threats facing American businesses, add this one: populism.
Increasingly, civil-led protests and actions are disrupting business operations. If leaders don't give them as much attention as economic risks such as highe...
The Federal Government Is Far Behind the Digital Curve
It's been almost two years since President Biden issued an executive order that directs federal agencies to beef up their digital offerings and improve the "customer experience." Yet websites remain clunky and opaque, with functionality med...
New ways to manage security risk in the volatile post-pandemic world
As the pandemic recedes and businesses aggressively relaunch cross-border trade and expansion, they're returning to a very different world. That makes it crucial for corporate leaders to rethink how they manage security risks.
Rapid...
We Need More Useful Intelligence, Not Just Artificial Intelligence
Artificial or not, what's most important is that intelligence be useful. Which is why there's a better name for what businesses need right now: Useful Intelligence or what I call UI, or a tool that filters out bad or even dangerous informatio...
This CEO says employees deserve to work from home - and it's better for business
I have genuine respect for Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, but I think they are flat-out wrong to insist that workers return to the office full time.
This is bad for employees, and it's bad for business....
Why Ukraine Needs Rapid DNA Testing
When a Russian missile slammed into the busy Amstor shopping mall in Ukraine on June 27th, hundreds of relatives of the dead and missing were left in a state of agonizing uncertainty over the fate of their loved ones.
This type of tra...
How to protect cybersecurity budgets
Market volatility and inflation are forcing companies to slash spending. In uncertain times like these, there's a tendency toward across-the-board cuts, so every department shares in the pain. But if you plan to include cybersecurity in your cu...
Your Cyberattack Response Plan Is Out Of Date. Here's How To Fix It.
As cybersecurity threats surge in frequency and sophistication, most MSPs have incident response plans in place. But not all plans are sufficient - something that quickly becomes clear when attackers succeed in breaching their defenses.
3 most common - and dangerous - holes in companies' cyber defenses
Cyberattack warnings have become so frequent that it's easy to tune them out. Your company has loaded up on security tools and run its Red Team drills. You're confident you've done all you can.
Executives at Microsoft and the ch...